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  1. I never found that worked very well, it wasn't that quiet. My understanding was that silence wasn't available because Ma Bell didn't want anyone to get the idea that not answering the phone was even an option.
  2. I remember when the only way to silence your phone was to take the handset off the hook.
  3. https://rentmasseur.com/Blakefrost I wonder if those are the 'full service' rates...
  4. I've had Durian, just ok, I wouldn't rehire.
  5. I'm quite happy with Future. I have a responsive and truly qualified coach. They require the use of an Apple Watch (they will send you one to use if you don't already have one) to communicate with the Future app on your iPhone, to get real telemetry on how you are doing, so no cheating! https://www.future.fit
  6. An oldie but goodie, from the days when people used email! [MEDIA=twitter]3696477070[/MEDIA]
  7. It wasn't very busy, not sure what too make of that. I did end up in the middle of three dancers, that started to draw a crowd.
  8. You have to post the pic somewhere public that can be read by a web browser, which most download services don't provide. I use https://imgbb.com but I've not really investigated how long the links will persist or anything.
  9. WHO warns of PPE shortage; nCoV pace slows slightly in China China’s case count Earlier today, China reported 3,143 new cases, the second decline in as many days, bringing the outbreak total to 31,161 cases, according to the latest update from the country's National Health Commission (NHC). There were 73 more deaths, 69 of them from Hubei province, raising the fatality count to 636. Officials reported 962 serious cases, putting that total at 4,821. So far, 1,540 patients have recovered and been discharged from the hospital. At today's briefing, Tedros said it's too soon to say if China's outbreak has peaked, noting that epidemiological curves can zigzag. Also at the briefing, Maria Van Kerkhove, PhD, the WHO's technical lead for MERS-CoV, said that from data the WHO has seen on 17,000 of China's cases, 82% are mild, 15% severe, and 3% critical. She noted that so far, only one amplifying event in a healthcare setting—a hallmark of Middle East respiratory coronavirus (MERS-CoV)—has been reported in China's outbreak. In other developments in China: Health officials have ramped up control measures in Wuhan, steering some sick people into quarantine areas such as stadiums and hotels and ordering door-to-door fever checks of all households, the New York Times reported today. Emphasis added. For all the criticism, and doubtless mistakes were made, I'm not very confident things would be much better if this happened here.
  10. Did you read the article I linked? The original source was an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. I don't know any journalistic standard that says the underlying data of such an article needs to be independently validated. The issue here was not the journalists. You are mischaracterizing my position, probably because your argument is very weak. If my boss had objected, we would have been heading down to HR, who usually understand that having one person on the job sick is not a good idea since it may take out a whole department. Middle managers will get away with whatever they can. Back to the specific discussion, you are really not making a good point here, basically saying that we all just need to get infected with communicable viruses.
  11. I've come to accept that you are prone to saying stuff that does not make any sense, so just letting you know, I have no idea what this has to do with being so ill you are taking drugs to treat your symptoms but still go to work. The logic here is so attenuated as to be non-existent. Are you just arguing to argue? Just let me know, so I can add you to my ignore list. I'll say it again, the standing recommendation if you are sick is to not go to work and infect your coworkers. Nothing to do with a pandemic. There is not a debate on this. The last time a coworker showed up sick at my job, I said, in front of our boss, "Either you're going home or I am". He went home.
  12. Appealing to the coveted 25-54 year old demographic means using modern idioms, which seem to now include extreme awkwardness, companies that are run by semi-malicious morons, and customers are clueless dufuses.
  13. More corporate dirtbaggery, looks like the fired CEO will get more money than the direct relations of the victims. Boeing's 737 MAX victims compensation fund raises questions Boeing is navigating how to handle the $100 million compensation fund it set up for the families of crash victims, even as a pledge by its former CEO to fatten the fund seems uncertain. Why it matters: Boeing is pulling out all stops to appease Wall Street over the grounding of its 737 MAX, but it is saying little about the issue of restitution for the families of the hundreds who died due to faulty technology onboard its flagship plane. The backstory: Last year, Boeing made a big splash when it announced it would set aside $100 million for a victims' compensation fund. The move was among the first by the company to stymie the worst P.R. crisis in its 103-year history. In October 2018, a Lion Air 737 MAX jet crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 189 people on board. Six months later, an Ethiopian Air 737 MAX flight crashed after takeoff, killing all 157 inside. Those events prompted a global grounding of Boeing's biggest money-making jet — and a slew of more lawsuits. There were immediate calls for Boeing's chief executive, Dennis Muilenburg, to step down, but — before he did so — he publicly pledged before a crowd of hundreds to contribute "substantial amounts" to the 737 MAX victims' fund. At the time — November — Muilenburg said he planned to donate part of his own pay to the victims' compensation fund or a charity, wherever "the greatest need is at the time of vesting," a Boeing spokesperson clarified to Axios. The compensation — Boeing shares, which Muilenburg still received as part of his exit package — will vest soon. In response to a request for comment, Boeing said it had no update on Muilenburg's promise. The state of play: Of the $100 million Boeing allocated to victims, Boeing subsequently said only half of that sum would be paid directly to families. In the same announcement, the company said it had hired victim compensation attorney Kenneth Feinberg to oversee those payouts, which is being evenly split among families who file claims. (Feinberg has worked on compensation for those impacted by 9/11 terrorist attacks, as well as the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.) So far, 266 families have received $144,50o each, Camille Biros, a partner at Feinberg's firm, tells Axios. Lawyers representing the families say that's paltry. What they're saying: "Half of the fund for relief is a problem," Bob Clifford, an attorney who's leading a consolidated case of more than 100 suits against Boeing, told CNN at the time of Boeing's announcement. Mike Andrews, an attorney at Beasley Allen Law, who represents lawsuit against Boeing, tells Axios: "You've got $50 million for hundreds of families, as compared to the $63+ million compensation package that Dennis Muilenburg received." "A lot of my clients wrote me and said: 'wow, do you see the amount [Muilenburg] got in his severance package? And my husband is dead,'" Floyd Wisner, an aviation attorney, tells Axios. By the numbers: Muilenburg will not get any severance and will forfeit stock awards valued at $14 million, according to a recent company filing. But he still walked away with other stock and pension awards worth $62.2 million, the New York Times reported earlier this year. What's new: Boeing has asked Feinberg to take a bigger role with the compensation fund. He will figure out how to allocate the remaining $50 million — the plans for which, until now, remained unclear. He will work with victims' families to figure out the appropriate way to use that money. The $50 million probably won't be paid out directly to the victims' families, but rather toward a project that would honor the victims of the crashes and serve the impacted communities, which span more than 35 countries. Feinberg's firm confirmed it was in "preliminary discussions" with Boeing about whether they will be involved in figuring out what to do with the additional funds. Boeing said it has "started the process of engaging with families, governments, community leaders, and others about how best to allocate the $50 million set aside" victims of the two crashes."
  14. Turns out the story of a symptomless person spending the infection to coworkers in Germany was false. Symptomless spread of new coronavirus questioned as outbreak mushrooms Without direct communication with her prior to the publication, the NEJM article’s authors relied on the accounts of her four sickened colleagues in Germany, who said she didn’t seem sick during her visit. But government health officials in Germany were later able to reach the Shanghai woman by telephone. People privy to details of the call told Science that she said she felt tired, had muscle pains, and took a fever-reducer during her visit. Long standing advice is to stay home if you don't feel well.
  15. Boeing says it lost money in 2019, that hasn't happened since 1997.
  16. Boeing says it lost money in 2019, that hasn't happened since 1997.
  17. https://m4m-forum.org/threads/daddys-extraordinary-jan-14-review-of-https-rent-men-rainer.155045/
  18. https://m4m-forum.org/threads/daddys-extraordinary-jan-14-review-of-https-rent-men-rainer.155045/
  19. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/nl.hideproxy.me
  20. I was wondering if the Saints need to pay their head coach better but I see the actual handle is Sean Peyton.
  21. Netflix: Incredibly excited and honored to announce that THE IRISHMAN, MARRIAGE STORY, AMERICAN FACTORY, and ATLANTICS will all join the @Criterion Collection later this year!
  22. It's a real shame about his daughter. But after that, meh. From 2018: Why The Fuck Isn't Kobe Bryant A Pariah Yet? On the night of July 1, 2003, Bryant choked a 19-year-old employee of the Eagle, Colorado hotel where he was staying (hard enough to leave bruises on her neck), bent her over a chair, and drew blood during the ensuing sex act. By the end of the night, she’d told a coworker that Bryant had forced himself on her; by the end of the next day he’d been contacted by local police. During the resulting criminal investigation, Bryant did not deny the encounter; he didn’t deny choking her; he even admitted he’d never asked for her consent, claiming to have inferred it from her body language. When it was all over—that is, after Bryant’s lawyers intimidated the woman out of the courtroom by reframing the forensic evidence to suggest that she was a lying slut...
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